| 1 |
On 19:39 Mon 15 Oct , Sébastien Fabbro wrote: |
| 2 |
> I would like to call for help for the sci team. Lately, we are taking |
| 3 |
> care of sometimes old packages, sometimes packages that we don't use but |
| 4 |
> are quite popular so we want to keep in the tree. Our time is limited, |
| 5 |
> bug list is barely reducing, and requests for new packages are piling |
| 6 |
> up. |
| 7 |
> |
| 8 |
> There are plenty of interesting projects the sci team could start. But |
| 9 |
> we just don't do because we are understaffed. Examples of such projects |
| 10 |
> are: grid-aware tools, homepage page renewal, more docs, test-suites for |
| 11 |
> packages, more collaboration with hp-cluster. I also know some widely |
| 12 |
> used packages are not in the tree because they need a lot of time to |
| 13 |
> package/maintain. In my field such examples are: iraf and midas in |
| 14 |
> sci-astronomy, geant-4 in hep, R-packages, many numerical libraries, |
| 15 |
> etc... |
| 16 |
> |
| 17 |
> So what could we do to get more help: call for new recruits, convince |
| 18 |
> more devs to join the sci herd, get proxied packages, more overlay |
| 19 |
> maintainers? (in the past, there was a similar thread [1]). I could |
| 20 |
> train a new dev in anyone interested, I would have more time in 2 weeks. |
| 21 |
|
| 22 |
Just a cautionary note: |
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
However much we might be able to use the extra help, we need to make |
| 25 |
sure to keep our developer standards high. |
| 26 |
|
| 27 |
I think a good way to start is to make the overlay an "accepted" |
| 28 |
solution for where to keep packages. Get more people participating in |
| 29 |
the overlay, and even be willing to move packages from the main tree to |
| 30 |
the overlay if there's non-devs willing to help with things that are |
| 31 |
poorly maintained. |
| 32 |
|
| 33 |
The overlay worked great to get you to join. =) |
| 34 |
|
| 35 |
Thanks, |
| 36 |
Donnie |
| 37 |
-- |
| 38 |
gentoo-science@g.o mailing list |
Archives